Requests for Proposals (RFP)
We are seeking qualified consultants, contractors, and agency partners to collaborate with us on key deliverables. If you bring expertise, a passion for community-driven work, and a track record of excellence, we invite you to submit a proposal.
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Human-Centered Design Consultant
The Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance (MNCHWA) is implementing a Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) initiative to design a sustainable Earn and Train CHW workforce model tailored to the needs of rural healthcare employers, CHWs, learners, and communities.
The initiative will use human-centered design, stakeholder engagement, listening and discovery, and co-design to better understand the needs, experiences, barriers, and opportunities across the rural CHW workforce ecosystem and translate those insights into a practical, implementation-ready model.
RHTP Program Goals
- Develop a sustainable rural CHW Earn and Train workforce model that expands career and training opportunities for rural workers.
- Understand and respond to the needs of rural employers, CHWs, learners, and communities through stakeholder engagement and human-centered discovery.
- Strengthen rural employer readiness and capacity to effectively employ, train, integrate, and retain CHWs.
- Align CHW education, training, and workforce pathways with rural workforce needs, including appropriate certificate programs, on-the-job training, and supplemental supports.
- Develop an implementation-ready model that can be piloted, evaluated, refined, and ultimately scaled across rural Minnesota.
Data Architect and Data Strategy Lead
The Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance (MNCHWA) is a statewide nonprofit organization working to advance and strengthen the Community Health Worker (CHW) field across Minnesota. As MNCHWA’s programs, partnerships, reporting requirements, and statewide role have grown, so has the volume and complexity of the data the organization collects and manages.
MNCHWA collects quantitative and qualitative data across multiple programs, grants, and other sources. Extensive reporting requirements are associated with these activities, alongside a need to generate intelligence that supports data-driven decision-making and workforce advocacy.
MNCHWA’s long-term vision is an integrated technology and data ecosystem supporting organizational operations, program delivery, grant reporting, workforce intelligence, stakeholder engagement, evaluation, and future services. This work will occur incrementally over multiple years.
MNCHWA is seeking an experienced Data Architect to serve as lead data architect and strategic technical advisor: to design the foundational data architecture, data models, and governance framework that this vision requires, to produce the technical specifications an implementation partner will build from, and to validate that what gets built matches what was designed.
Scope of Work and Deliverables
Four deliverables, plus a bounded advisory engagement. Bidders should propose against these directly
- Target-State Data Model and Architecture
- Data Governance Framework
- Technical Specifications and Implementation Roadmap
- Implementation Advisory and Validation